Chris Joseph

for remix_runran from starfield generator (unknown source) + something strange in my breakfast this morning

souce: relativitypoem.fla (41kb)

A new collaborative playwriting project, The Living Script, has just been launched by Chicago area artist Brett Hanover. The Living Script uses wiki technology to create an online, user-editable theatrical script.

Users of Wikipedia will be familiar with the format, though here the intent is to create a work of art constantly in flux - a script that never reaches its final draft. While collaborative writing projects have utilized wikis in the past, this is the first time the format has been used to create a stage play. Whatever develops from this unique process will be available for performance under a free-media, Creative Commons license.

The Living Script can be edited online at www.livingscript.com beginning the first of March.

About Brett Hanover:

A product of the burgeoning Memphis independent film scene, Brett Hanover debuted in 2005 with the short documentary “Above God,” winner of Best Documentary at both the Indie Memphis and Atlanta Underground film festivals. This was followed by the experimental film “SCHIAVO,” featured both at Indie Memphis and the 2006 Spun from the Web exhibition in Chicago. Since that time, he has directed numerous productions, including the critically acclaimed performance “S4TYR PL4Y,” (2006) the first theatrical work to deal with anthropomorphic identity. Hanover currently attends the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is working on a feature documentary, “Bunnyland,” set for release in ‘08. (Artist Contact: www.bretthanover.com)

CONTACT:
The Living Script
thelivingscript@gmail.com
www.livingscript.com

Children’s Art Day 2007 - Register your events now!

Take part in Children’s Art Day! 28 June - 1 July 2007

engage is delighted to be managing Children’s Art Day this year with funding from the Clore Duffield Foundation. Thousands of children, their teachers and their families will take part in celebrations of Children’s Art Day with special events taking place across the nation in schools, galleries, museums and arts centres.

Events will be taking place all week from Monday 25 June to Sunday 1 July, with the majority of events happening on Thursday 28 June and at the weekend. Children’s Art Day provides opportunities for thousands of children around the UK to get involved in art projects organised by galleries, museums, schools and other organisations. Some events will be for schools and other groups from formal or informal learning settings, with others open to the public including family groups.

All participating London galleries, museums and arts centres running public events for Children’s Art Day will be included in a listings guide produced by the Mayor’s Office and Visit London.

Registration is now live via the engage website.

Registering your event on the engage website entitles you to a free website listing and free stickers and balloons. London venues registering public events will also be included in a listings guide.

You can register any events or activities you are running for Children’s Art Day via the engage website http://www.engage.org/projects/cad_register.aspx engage members should log in to the website before registering an event

Further advice and information about the day is on the website at http://www.engage.org/projects/artworks_orgs.aspx

The deadline for registering your event is 29 May 2007.

We do hope that you will be able to take part in this exciting initiative.

Please contact mailto:alex.hitchins@engage.org with any queries

Two sources of funding have been announced for students on the De Montfort University Online MA in Creative Writing & New Media in 2007-8.

1. The Institute Of Creative Technologies is offering twelve Masters-level studentships for the coming academic year 2007-2008. The studentships are worth 10,000 GBP each and are available to UK full-time students only. Applications from part-time or overseas students will not be considered. One of these studentships is allocated to the Online MA in Creative Writing & New Media. For details of the award see http://www.ioct.dmu.ac.uk/masters.htm

2. There is also a Faculty of Humanities Writer’s Scholarship. There will be one award worth £1500 available to students on the Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media. All students holding an offer of a place will be considered on the basis of the writing sample submitted as part of the application for the course.

About the Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media

http://www.dmu.ac.uk/faculties/humanities/pg/ma/cwnm.jsp (applicants)
http://www.creativewritingandnewmedia.com (current students)

The course is designed for writers interested in experimenting with new formats and exploring the potential of new technologies in their writing. Whether you write fiction, nonfiction, blogs or hypertext, we will help you develop your individual voice in a supportive and creative atmosphere which is challenging, interdisciplinary and international. Students may study full-time (1 year) or part-time (2 years). Please note that we do not currently offer poetry.

This 95% distance learning course has a unique commitment to the connections between writing and new media and offers an excellent online experience combined with one week ’s intensive study at the De Montfort University campus. You will enjoy 1-1 tutorial support, lively workshops with fellow students and the opportunity to create collaborative and interactive projects. The course is designed by Professor Sue Thomas, writer and former Artistic Director of the trAce Online Writing Centre, and Kate Pullinger, acclaimed novelist and new media writer. It has extensive links with important initiatives including DMU ’s Institute of Creative Technologies, research into digital narratives and new media writing, and the creative, digital and publishing industries. For example, this year students have collaborated with Penguin Books on the Million Penguins Wikinovel http://www.amillionpenguins.com.

Guest lecturers vary each year but in 2006-7 have included Randy Adams, Ronni Bennett, Alan Bigelow, Suw Charman, Christy Dena, Jeanie Finlay, Caitlin Fisher, Chris Joseph (babel), Marjorie Luesebrink, Carolyn Miller, Nick Montfort, Rita Raley, Howard Rheingold, Alan Sondheim, Maurice Suckling, Tim Wright, and others.

And look out for related events like the Women, Business & Blogging Conference, 8 June 07 http://www.nlabwomen.com

For more information please contact:
Promotion & Recruitment Centre
Faculty of Humanities
Clephan Building
De Montfort University
The Gateway
Leicester, LE1 9BH, UK
Telephone: + 44 (0) 116 2506470
Fax: + 44 (0) 116 2577199
Email: pghums@dmu.ac.uk
Web:
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/faculties/humanities/pg/ma/cwnm.jsp
http://www.creativewritingandnewmedia.com

New on The Hyperliterature Exchange for March 2007: a review of ‘The Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One’, edited by N Katherine Hayles, Nick Montfort, Scott Rettberg and Stephanie Strickland.

“The Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 1 (ELC1 for short) contains some extremely powerful, beautiful, clever, amusing and moving pieces of work, but it isn’t entirely without flaws…”

To read the whole review, go to http://hyperex.co.uk/reviewelc1.php .

The Hyperliterature Exchange is an online directory and review of new media literature for sale on the Web. More than 120 works are now listed.

Please visit and browse at http://hyperex.co.uk .

THE LATER IS NOW HALIFAX ARTIST BILLET, CANADA

Scheduled for July/August of 2007, this independent residency will provide an artist with a studio and accommodations for three weeks. Located in the (enterprising and laid-back) north end of this east coast Canadian city, The Later Is Now Halifax Artist Billet is a unique opportunity for an adaptable artist to spend time in Halifax , Canada . The site of the residency is an apartment flat shared by four Halifax residents (under-thirty artist, curator, architect and wild card). A modest spare studio and bedroom will be made available to the selected artist. The artist will have use of the flat’s amenities (kitchen, bathroom, dryer, balcony, driveway, garden).

A gallery exhibition is scheduled for the final week of the residency.

The cost of travel, materials and food will be the responsibility of the artist.

Applications must be received no later than March 30, 2007.
Please send CV, images (slides, digital, video etc), and letter of interest to:

The Later is Now Halifax Artist Billet
c/o E. Jones
2664 Fuller Terrace
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada
B3K 3V7

For specific information (FRANCAIS or ESPANOL translation): laterisnow@gmail.com

OPEN CALL
Desideratum De*sid`e*ra”tum, n.
Deep, unfufilled longing. Yearning. Desire without hope
Anything desired; that of which the lack is felt; a want generally felt and acknowledged.

Open call for art in any and all media dealing with this state(s)

Desideratum curator and Gallery Aferro co-founder Evone Davis once traveled to New Orleans. Walking to the end of Desire street, she found a large, empty warehouse, water. Where is the end of desire now?

There is none.

Submissions due July 23. Notification by August 8. Delivery by August 22.

Desiderium will be on display at Gallery Aferro, Newark NJ, September 2007

www.aferro.org

Please refer to exhbition guidelines on website
http://www.aferro.org/websitebaker/wb/pages/submissions.php

Please email work to evonne.aferro@gmail.com
or mail work to Evonne Davis Gallery Aferro 248 sherman ave #43 NY NY 10034

The mission of Gallery Aferro is to bring cultural education and esthetic engagement with contemporary issues to all people equally, and to create an environment where artists can gather and share physical and intellectual resources. We are working towards an arts community that is available to everyone, without sacrificing standards or quality of experience. Founded in a converted factory building in the Ironbound, Gallery Aferro was planned as a pilot project to be recreated in different architectural forms, in multiple American cities. Gallery Aferro is currently being run out of a 20,000 sq ft building in downtown Newark.

(Artist Brent Hoff once staged a game of beach volleyball between passerbys, using the US-Mexico barrier as a net. Players could shout to, but not see each other. No changing sides allowed.)

ENTER_UNKNOWN TERRITORIES
Cambridge (UK)

CONFERENCE 25-27 APRIL 2007
FESTIVAL 25-29 APRIL 2007

CONFERENCE
The conference will provide an opportunity to meet, share and discuss how we build and sustain collaborative creative practices in new technology arts, education and commerce.

Art and new technology practice challenges the borders between creative disciplines, contemporary culture and commerce, questioning the relationship between producer and consumer. As these boundaries are dissolved and reformed, new kinds of spaces are emerging in which creativity and experience can exist. Enter_Unknown Territories provides an opportunity to explore these new spaces and investigate their potential for collaboration between artists, businesses and academics.

The conference will offer an exciting platform for dialogue and engagement between arts, education, research and business. It will catalyse and foster sustainable and effective partnerships across different sectors and will appeal to people working in labs, workshops, arts centres and companies as well as the general public.

Unknown Territories seeks to encourage specialists to expand their knowledge while offering a rare opportunity through the participation of Cambridge research labs and media artists from the Eastern region and elsewhere for everyone to enjoy some hands on experimentation. It also features the launch of an international publication, Uncommon Ground, which tackles some of the critical questions and issues involved in cross sectoral working.

Read more

Looking for collaborators

Are you interested in the arts, new media and games? Do you want to collaborate on a large-scale, city-wide, interactive event? Inspired by past exhibits, performances and installations and wanting to shake-up London apathy, I want to work with other enthusiastic and imaginative people to devise an exciting, multimedia event which will transform how we experience the capital.

If you’re interested/curious/inspired, please get in touch with me at adxjep@hotmail.com and tell me a little about yourself and your interests and ideas.

Next RevolveWire Summer / Autumn 07
‘RISK’

We are currently seeking worldwide contributions interpreting ‘risk’.

We are looking for pieces that take risk and rip it to pieces, personally, politically, creatively. This can come from any sector of the arts & cultural debate including but not limited to: fine art, design, critique, creative writing, personal essays, interviews / profiles, features, fashion, illustration, drawing, painting, photography, photojournalism, graphics: we want work from a broad spectrum and include 3d design, moving image, installation, music, & web-based artwork as focuses for articles. We love to see collaboration and interdisciplinary work.

Please send an initial proposal and small sample of work (under 3mb) to submissions@revolvewire.co.uk. Deadline for proposals: April 14th 2007.
If you’ve not heard by May 14th, you’ve been unsuccessful this time, but please resubmit to future editions. While contributions are currently unpaid, you will get a couple of copies of your issue, plus international publicity.

RevolveWire will find you twice a year (‘Winter / Spring’ & ‘Summer / Autumn’) to bring you a carousel of creativity and debates in image, music, and text. RevolveWire will tell stories to you, and you to it. You’ll want to keep it with you and talk to it daily, like a secret obsession. Each issue we take a key word and ask collaborators and contributors to suggest their interpretation. Finding different threads and strands of the thematic fabric, we then commission, suggesting joint or solo work. We look for those who create, interpret, and transform the environment around them. RevolveWire is a printed conversation: sometimes whispered, sometimes shouted. Come and talk with us.

Issue 1, ‘Looking’, is out now:

It contains eye-opening articles on how arthouse porn and online games influence our sex lives; critique and debate about new technologies of looking at each other such as blogs and bluetooth; animator/director Chris Krupa scrutinises his own submission to SingleShot, the UK-wide short film showcase; artist/bookmaker Lisa Wigham presents some found slides in story-format; and also fashion narrative, artists’ interviews and on-page art work & photography, and political/critical commentary.

Profiles include Oscar & Bafta winning Andrea Arnold on her new film ‘Red Road’; musicians Graham Massey and Paddy Steer (Toolshed, Homelife, ex 808-State & Lionrock); Mike Grigsby (documentary filmmaker); Doug Fishbone (artist). Other writers, stylists, photographers and illustrators are either established practitioners in their fields or the new blood everyone should be watching out for. In Issue 1 you will find a free CD of Electro-Folk label Timbreland Recordings plus tracks from Toolshed.

The website is currently under construction at www.revolvewire.co.uk, but look at www.myspace.com/revolvewire for general information on stockists & subscriptions etc.